HUMANITY IN ACTION - Key Persons


Amber Due

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Anne Katrine Ebbesen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow, Project Consultant, Danish Institute for Human Rights

Christina Antonakos-Wallace

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow Christina Antonakos-Wallace's and her team's documentary film "From Here" has been selected for the London Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Initial seed money through a grant from Humanity in Action as well as the work of many Senior Fellows have been involved in making this important film project a reality.

Daniel Lazarević

Job Titles:
  • Project Officer

Dominika Luśniak

Job Titles:
  • Finance
  • Operations Manager

Dr. Magda Szarota

Job Titles:
  • Board Member of Humanity in Action Polska
  • Expert and Activist Intervention During the European Parliament 's Inter - Parliamentary Committee Meeting
  • HIA Poland Board Member
  • Member of the Management Board of Humanity
Magda Szarota makes an expert and activist intervention during the European Parliament's inter-parliamentary committee meeting Magda Szarota, HIA Poland Board Member, on the invitation of the Members of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament made an expert and activist intervention during an inter-parliamentary committee meeting to mark the International Day on the Elimination of Violence against Women. Magda Szarota, a board member of Humanity In Action Polska, joined the feminist round table on how to make the EU directive on gender-based violence intersectional, comprehensive & effective. Magda Szarota, a board member of Humanity In Action Polska, together with Suzannah Phillips, Deputy Director from Women Enabled, bring women with disabilities to the front in the debate on abortion rights in Poland. Magda is a Member of the Management Board of Humanity in Action Poland and a Steering Committee member of the Feminist Alliance for Rights run by the Center for Women's Global Leadership/Rutgers University (US). She is a Founding Member of Artykuł 6 (a Polish feminist disability rights collective) and cooperates with Women Enabled International (US) and Sisters of Frida (UK). Magda is also a doctoral candidate at the Lancaster University and a recipient of numerous merit-based scholarships from e.g. Yale University, Kosciuszko Foundation and Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.

Garrett Schaffel

Job Titles:
  • Communications Manager

Hannah Joy Sachs

Job Titles:
  • US National Director

Herbert Pundik - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder

Jakob Lund

Job Titles:
  • Independent Consultant and Writer

Jasmin Hasić

Job Titles:
  • National Director
  • the Humanity in Action Executive Director
The Humanity in Action Executive Director Jasmin Hasić has made an appearance at the local television channel Televizija Sarajevo - TVSA, during which he spoke about the #NATO supported project "Defending Euro-Atlantic Values" and the policy papers that the participants have produced during the project.

Jet Laven

Job Titles:
  • Communications & Community Intern

Joanna Pottle

Job Titles:
  • Community Engagement Manager

Joanna Zalewska

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Jorien Janssen

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • National Director

Judith Goldstein - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director Emeritus
  • Founder

Kasia Siemasz

Job Titles:
  • National Director

Katie Nichols

Job Titles:
  • Project Assistant

Katja Buch Madsen

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Larysa Michalska

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Lisa Ama Schrade

Job Titles:
  • National Director

Louise Croué

Job Titles:
  • Special Project Coordinator

Luiza Braga

Job Titles:
  • Communications & Community Manager

Magdalena Fuchs

Magdalena Fuchs has long been fascinated by the Jewish culture and interreligious dialogue. It was only natural that her idea for the Action Project had to involve education and tolerance. As a lawyer and human rights activist, she knows best the value of teaching solidarity with minority groups and the real danger of hate speech.

Magdalena Szarota

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Board & Director of Communications, Ombudsperson
Dr. Magda Szarota is a disability and human rights advocate, disability studies researcher, NGO executive and a photographer. She has lived and worked in Asia, Europe and the US, and is considered one of the pioneers of the disabled women's movement in post-socialist Poland.

Marcelina Rosińska

Job Titles:
  • HIA Senior Fellow
HIA Senior Fellow Marcelina Rosińska named one of "25 under 25" by the Forbes magazine and McKinsey & Company Warsaw!

Marcelo Nigri - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
Chief Financial Officer; Board Treasurer, Humanity in Action, Inc.

Melanie Guther

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Monika Mazur-Rafał

Job Titles:
  • President of the Managing Board, National Director
President of the Managing Board, National Director of Humanity in Action Poland; International Director of European Programs; Board Member Humanity in Action, Inc.

Pascal Snijders

Job Titles:
  • Office Coordinator

Pooja Lama

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Priyanka Klara

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow Priyanka Klara leads the charge against waste through a business-focused campaign to reduce needless straw use.

Rae Dunbar

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Rosana Hanif

Job Titles:
  • Operations and Admissions Manager Board Assistant Secretary, Humanity in Action, Inc.

Samar Hashish

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Sarah Verdin

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Shawn Reilly

Job Titles:
  • US Action Project Strategist Project Specialist at the National LGBT Cancer Network / 2021 Landecker Democracy Fellowship

Simon Bech

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow Simon Bech biked around Aarhus, Denmark with a trailer in tow to spread awareness of the social aspects to global health issues while funding field work by MSF.

Suzannah Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director from Women Enabled

Talia Dubovi

Job Titles:
  • Interim CEO and Board Member, Humanity in Action, Inc.

Vanda Prošková

Job Titles:
  • Communications Consultant

Zarja Marković

Job Titles:
  • Program Director
  • Program Director / Denmark